Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics) - Softcover

Clark, John Drury; Asimov, Isaac

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813595835 ISBN 13: 9780813595832

Verlag: Combined Academic Publ., 2018

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"It's rare that a book about as high-minded and serious a topic as rocket science manages to be both highly informative and laugh-out-loud funny. But if there's a better way to describe John Clark's Ignition!, I've yet to discover it." - Ars Technica

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This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who worked against the known laws of nature, with no guarantee of success or safety. Acclaimed scientist and sci-fi author John D. Clark writes with irreverent and eyewitness immediacy about the development of the explosive fuels strong enough to negate the relentless restraints of gravity. The resulting volume is as much a memoir as a work of history, sharing a behind-the-scenes view of an enterprise which eventually took men to the moon, missiles to the planets, and satellites to outer space. A classic work in the history of science, and described as "a good book on rocket stuff...that's a really fun one" by Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades.

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• Verlag: Combined Academic Publ.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0813595835
• ISBN 13: 9780813595832
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 195